Rite to Salus
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At Rome, a public sacrifice was made to goddess Salus. Salus is the goddess associated with safety, health, and welfare. An offering on the hilltop shrine to Salus ensured health and safety to the devout. This goddess was in earliest times an agricultural deity, as the health and success of the harvest was crucial to survival.
Salus was shown on coins feeding a sacred snake from a patera, or ritual plate; she held a scepter in her other hand. In some depictions, she is shown holding sheaves of wheat, most likely the more ancient image."
(from Classical Living, p. 153)
At Rome, a public sacrifice was made to goddess Salus. Salus is the goddess associated with safety, health, and welfare. An offering on the hilltop shrine to Salus ensured health and safety to the devout. This goddess was in earliest times an agricultural deity, as the health and success of the harvest was crucial to survival.
Salus was shown on coins feeding a sacred snake from a patera, or ritual plate; she held a scepter in her other hand. In some depictions, she is shown holding sheaves of wheat, most likely the more ancient image."
(from Classical Living, p. 153)
